Postponed: AbdouMaliq Simone

This lecture date has been canceled until further notice.

Something Else Besides: Of Strange Contiguities
and Refusals in Urban Life

Response by Weiping Wu

AbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist with particular interest in emerging forms of collective life across cities of the so-called Global South. He has worked across many different academic, administrative, research, policymaking, advocacy, and organizational contexts. Simone is presently Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Visiting Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.

Key publications include, In Whose Image: Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan, University of Chicago Press, 1994, For the City Yet to Come: Urban Change in Four African Cities, Duke University Press, 2004, and City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads: Routledge, 2009, Jakarta: Drawing the City Near: University of Minnesota Press, 2014, and New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times, Polity 2017 (with Edgar Pieterse).

Free and open to the public.
Organized by Columbia GSAPP’s Urban Planning program.